Sydney Eating Episode Day 2

Day two… I was blessed to have my Uncle and Aunty take my boyfriend and I around the tasty town of Cabramatta. The snacks, drinks and restaurants are embedded in my memory and if only there was such a thing a smell-a-blogging, you would understand why.

Dong Ba – Bun Bo Hue ( Spicy Beef and Pork Noodle Soup) $8.00

If you love Bun Bo Hue, there’s only one place to go for it in Sydney. Dong Ba. At any one of their branches you can hear slurping noises from all the happy customers as soon as you step into the store.

Bun Bo Hue is a Vietnamese noodle soup. The broth is mildly spicy, with flavours of lemongrass and other herbs. A good broth should be boiling for hours with bones, mainly beef.

Dong Ba’s Bun Bo Hue soup is so aromatic from the hours of stewing broth, and you can really tell by just looking at the colour of the broth. The toppings on their Bun Bo Hue include slices of pork, beef and Cha Lua.

Cha Lua is like a Vietnamese meatloaf or ham.

Condiments for Bun Bo Hue ( Spicy Beef and Pork Noodle Soup)

The condiments which you can add to your soup includes lemon, beanshoots, lettuce, red cabbage and mint. Adding the condiments to your soup will give it a bit more texture and flavour.

Thit Bo Luc Lac is also known as ‘Shaking Beef’. It’s marinated cubes of beef served with red rice. I love this dish most when the beef is cooked to a perfect medium. I also love it with a fried egg.

The ‘Shaking’ refers to the cooking method which is shaking the wok as you cook the beef. That’s all.

Entry into Cabramatta

Kaysone Sweets

Kaysone sweets specialise in anything from containers of snacks, honey toffee vegetable chips to drinks and shakes. A must stop not matter how full you are.

Honey and Toffee Vegetable Chips $4.00 for 100g

My absolute favourite chips are the Taro Chips with Honey Toffee. The chips are kept warm and crispy, they are then covered with lashings of their honey toffee. It’s worth getting your hands sticky for.

Banana Sticky Rice $2.20

I bought a Banana Sticky Rice with Coconut to take home since I couldn’t eat it all the time. When I got home it was still warm. The sticky rice was fragrant from being wrapped in the banana leaf and had a few charred marks which were delicious. Topped with coconut milk and crushed nuts this was a perfect dessert or snack!

Asian Drink Station

There are a lot of places who have these stations all around Cabramatta. The idea is that you choose the ingredients you want, and they make a drink out of it.

My Boyfriend’s Shake

He picked strawberry, jackfruit and mango, which is then blended with condensed milk, crushed ice and sugar.

Your choice of 8 selections for $4.50, I chose Lychee, coconut cubes, jackfruit, omega 3 seeds and a mix of jellies. It is then topped with sugar syrup ,coconut milk and shaved ice.